I recently stumbled across a PhD by Russell Elliot Dale, in which he (en passant) traces some of Grice's ideas on meaning to a Lady Victoria Welby (which just happens to be a place in Lincolnshire a couple of miles up the road from here).
In the manner of London buses I then notice that Russell mentions the same lady in his "Our Knowledge of the External World as a field of study for scientific philosophy" (in a not particularly flattering way).
So I thought I would (presumably unnecessarily) provoke the third by asking whether you (JL, or anyone else who cares to comment) have come across Dale's dissertation and what you think of that part of his thesis (or of the rest).
He does, for my money, field what looks at first glance like a rather facile critique of formal semantics, but I don't suppose that need impact what he has to say about Grice.
Roger Jones
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